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Indexes reviewed Edited by Christine Shuttleworth These extracts from reviews do not pretend to represent a Franklin, Beedle & Associates: Internet today: email, searching and complete survey of all reviews in journals and newspapers. We the World Wide Web, by E. Ackerman and K. Hartman (1999, offer only a selection from quotations that members have sent 286 pp, £35). Rev. by Jane Dorner, LOGOS 11(1), 2000. in. Our reproduction of comments is not a stamp of approval There’s a good index and glossary. from the Society of Indexers upon the reviewer’s assessment of Four Courts Press: Essays on the history of Trinity College Library, an index. Dublin, ed. by Vincent Kinane and Ann Walsh (2000, 206 pp, Extracts are arranged alphabetically under the names of £35). Rev. by Paul Sturges, Library Association Record 102(7), July 2000. publishers, within the sections: Indexes praised; Two cheers!; It is topped off with a good index . Indexes censured; Indexes omitted; Obiter dicta. HarperCollins: Boris Yeltsin: a revolutionary life, by Leon Aron (934 pp, £29.99). Rev. by Peter Millar, Sunday Times, 2 Jan 2000. Indexes praised Aron . has produced a comprehensive and painstakingly well- researched – and indexed – study that will be definitive when the Allen Lane: The total library: non-fiction 1922–1986, by Jorge Luis obituary columns allow him to add a final chapter. [Could this Borges, ed. by Eliot Weinberger (£20). Rev. by Thomas Wright, perhaps have been put more sensitively?] Daily Telegraph, 29 Jan. 2000. [see also Obiter dicta, below] This anthology is superior to the two previous Allen Lane collec- tions in other respects. It contains competent annotations and a Headline: The second creation: the age of biological control by the useful index. scientists that cloned Dolly, by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge (362 pp, £18.99). Rev. by Anne McLaren, Nature Atheneum: Outside and inside sharks, by Sandra Markle (1966). 403, Feb. 2000. Rev. by Barbara Fisler, Rockford Register Star, 24 June 2000. There is a useful glossary and an adequate index. A pronunciation guide, list of amazing facts and combination glos- sary and index are valuable additions to the text. Kogan Page: Mining the Internet: information gathering and research on the Net, by Brian Clegg (1999, 147 pp, £9.99). Rev. by Bernard Cambridge University Press: The new Cambridge medieval history, Williams, Library Association Record 102(2), Feb. 2000. vol. 5: c. 1198–c. 1300, ed. by David Abulafia (1045 pp, £75). It works very well, making the book suitable for both cover to cover Rev. by Elisabeth Van Houts, Times Literary Supplement,16 reading and as a reference tool (its role here enhanced by a June 2000. comprehensive index). [Despite some criticisms] this volume is a monumental achieve- ment for which the editor and his contributors deserve thanks. The Library Association Career Development Group: Science fiction, bibliographies, maps and index are excellent. fantasy and horror: a reader’s guide (1999, 416 pp, £25). Rev. by Chris Batt, Library Association Record 102(2), Feb. 2000. Dial: In our time: memoir of a revolution, by Susan Brownmiller On the plus side there are useful indexes listing sequels, series, (336 pp, $24.95). Rev. by Dawn Trouard, Washington Post,30 read-on authors and titles. So as a finding aid it has some worth... Jan. 2000. it provides a comprehensive index of a very good swathe of its three The book’s happenstance methodology [is] redeemed somewhat genres. by a top-notch index... McFarland & Co.: Plagiarism, copyright violation and other thefts of Edinburgh Geological Society: Building stones of Edinburgh,byA.A. intellectual property: an annotated bibliography with a lengthy McMillan, R. J. Gillanders and J. A. Fairhurst (2nd edn, 1999, 235 introduction, by Judy Anderson (1988, 201 pp). Rev. by Barbara pp, £9.50). Rev. by Ian Sims, Geoscientist 10(2), Feb. 2000. Rockenbach, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Jan. 2000. Admirably, there is a thorough and effective index. [Index by SI In addition to her interesting perspective, Anderson has provided members Paul Nash and Jane Angus.] extensive author, title, and subject indexes that any librarian or Faber & Faber: The Faber book of Utopias, ed. by John Carey (£20). scholar will appreciate. These indexes are invaluable to the Rev. by Isabel Quigly, The Tablet, 20 Nov. 1999. researcher at any level. If you are vaguely familiar with a plagiarism case, the subject index allows you to find it if you know any of the The best introduction to the subject of The Faber Book of Utopias is key players or details. The subject index also aids in drawing not the contents page or the index, though both are useful and send together areas of interest, such as plagiarism and art. The title one (me, anyway) scuttling forwards or backwards into the book. index is less valuable, but with 610 annotated citations it can be No, the best is Professor Carey’s own introduction. helpful. Fitzroy Dearborn: Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing, McGraw-Hill: Medical-surgical nursing, by Charlene J. Reeves, ed. by Kelly Boyd (2 vols, 1562 pp, £175). Rev. by Paul Smith, Gayle Roux and Robin Lockhart (1998, 630 pp, $37.00). Rev. by Times Literary Supplement, 4 Feb. 2000. Diana Mathis, AMWA Journal 15(2), Spring 2000. All the titles appearing among principal writings and all the The ‘Appendix,’ which is a relatively short list of abbreviations authors and editors of works appearing among further reading are (why not just label it ‘Abbreviations’?) is followed by an adequate separately indexed, the index of the latter thus covering a very large index. span of historical literature and enabling the reader to pursue the work of a considerable number of historians who do not have a Macmillan: Annuals and biennials, by Roger Phillips and Martyn personal entry – a faintly forlorn band of spearbearers, this last, but Rix (1999, 288 pp, £19.99). Rev. by Janet J. Cubey, The Garden, some of whom will be contending for full recognition in a subse- May 2000. quent edition. the index is easy to use and has common and Latin names. 100 The Indexer Vol. 22 No. 2 October 2000 Indexes reviewed Oxford University Press: Freedom from fear: the American people in Henry Brougham, David Brewster, Denis Johnston and Samuel Depression and war, 1929–45, by David M. Kennedy (936 pp, Beckett appear in the text but not in the index; many others appear £30). Rev. by Jim Potter, Times Literary Supplement, 10 March in the text more often than the index allows. ‘Feelings’ and ‘frivol- 2000. ity’, however, are both indexed, with a single entry apiece. There is a bibliographical essay of thirteen pages (though an alpha- Perhaps a distinguished publishing house can treat these betical listing would have been better) and a fifty-page index with mistakes and inconsistencies as incidental, but the carelessness some 2,000 entries. finds its way into what some still consider the higher levels of argu- ment and definition . Oxford University Press: Invitation to Christian spirituality, ed. by John R. Tyson (£37.50/£19.99). Rev. by Humphrey J. Fisher, The Bowker Saur: Only connect: shaping networks and knowledge for the Reader 97(2), Summer 2000. new millennium, by Trevor Haywood (330 pp, £35). Rev. by There is a good index. Martin White, LOGOS, 11, 2000. To make matters even worse (if that is in fact possible), the Penguin Books: The buildings of England: London 4: North,by publishers need to bear responsibility for a truly appalling index Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1998, xxii + 808 pp, £30). and careless copy-editing. Rev. by Terence Paul Smith, London Archaeologist, 9(3) 1999. A well illustrated glossary (as in all volumes) and extensive indexes Clarendon Press: The Oxford companion to the year, by Bonnie are a great aid to effective use of the work. Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens (937 pp, £35). Rev. by Donald Whitton, Times Literary Supplement, 4 Feb. 2000. Rodale Press (Emmaus, PA): The complete book of men’s health: If I had any complaint about the way the book is assembled, it the definitive, illustrated guide to healthy living, exercise, and sex,by would be that things you know must be there are not always easy to the Editors of Men’s Health® Books (1998, 288 pp, $31.95). find. But here the general bibliography is mixed up with the index Rev. by Jane Z. Dumsha, AMWA Journal 15(2), Spring 2000. of sources, which in turn covers both the works cited, and the refer- One minor flaw is that the key to the background colors used for ence books and authorities consulted by the compilers, and the the various types of text boxes is buried on the Acknowledgments excellent glossary gives no references. So the reader has to guess page. Placing this key in the table of contents or in the index might where to find what further information he may desire. better serve those who are searching for a particular category, such as Quizzes and Quotes. However, the carefully prepared index Clarendon Press: Virgil’s experience – nature and history: times, does reference the material inside the boxes, thereby permitting names and places, by Richard Jenkyns (712 pp, £50). Rev. by readers to locate information by subject. Elaine Fantham, Times Literary Supplement, 4 Feb. 2000. There is also a major problem for the reader trying to retrace refer- Spink: Victoria Cross bibliography, by John Mulholland and Alan ences: the book needs either running heads or sections for its Jordan (xvii + 217 pp, £25). Rev. in Library Association Record lengthy chapters (fifty to eighty pages), or again a much fuller 102(3), March 2000.